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 Gentleman's Agreement Information
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 Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 film about a journalist (played by Gregory Peck) who falsely represents himself as a Jew to research anti-semitism in New York City and the affluent community of Darien, Connecticut. The movie was controversial in its...
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 The Washington Post The Agreement
08/01/1990: 1,148 words, approx. 4 pages Text of the agreement between Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent and New York Yankees principal owner George Steinbrenner: On March 20, 1990, the Commissioner of Baseball instituted an investigation of George M. Steinbrenner III, the principal owner and general partner of the New York... summary from source:
Software Magazine Agreements.
07/01/1990: 401 words, approx. 1 pages AGREEMENTS Anderson Consulting, Chicago, and Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard, Mass., have agreed to jointly market Andersen's Foundation full life-cycle Case environment. Rosh Intelligent Systems Inc., Needham, Mass., and Applied Systems Technologies, Inc., of Chalfont, Pa., are jointly developing and will jointly market... summary from source:
 AP News Abu Ghraib art may go to Berkeley
8/28/2007: 251 words, approx. 1 pagesA collection of work by Colombian artist Fernando Botero about Abu Ghraib may be permanently housed at the University of California, Berkeley.The controversial images were shown at the university last winter and Botero has offered to donate all of them _ 25 paintings and 22... summary from source:
AP News Ex-Alaska pol says he stretched truth
9/21/2007: 547 words, approx. 2 pagesA former state legislator charged with corruption said he stretched the truth when he bragged to two powerful corporate friends about his intentions for legislation they wanted passed.Those claims _ secretly recorded by the FBI _ formed the basis for conspiracy and bribery charges against...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by John Mason Brown
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[Gentleman's Agreement represents a large undertaking] both in its difficulties and ambitions. It may have its scattered interludes written for the sake of amusement. It may tell in unconventional terms a conventional love story about a boy who meets, loses, and gets a girl. Yet it remains so faithful to its theme that it takes few recesses from it. Anti-Semitism is its plot; ideas are its concern; and instances of prejudice supply its action. This is at once its audacity and significance. Yes, and w... summary from source:
Critical Essay by William Du Bois
397 words, approx. 1 pages
Schuyler Green (the hero of this Grade-A tract ["Gentleman's Agreement"], which Mrs. Hobson has cleverly camouflaged as a novel) is a crusading writer for Smith's Magazine…. Schuyler, after he has reluctantly taken over the assignment [of writing a series of articles on anti-Semitism], leaps into harness with all his heart and soul…. [Since] he is unknown in New York, he prepares for the present series by taking a flat in walk-up Bohemia, and pretending to be Jewish... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Rex Stout
380 words, approx. 1 pages
Most of the reviews and nearly all the talk of this novel ["Gentleman's Agreement"] by Laura Hobson will treat it as a book about anti-Semitism. That is too bad, for first of all it is a good job of story telling. Mrs. Hobson had to choose her characters by types—that is inevitable in a propaganda novel—but, having picked them and named them, she put something much more human than synthetic sawdust inside their skins and pumped in real blood. The theme of the tale is anti-...
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Gentleman's Agreement by Laura Z. Hobson | |
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